Discriminating factors of body composition characteristics for academic performance in nursing college students: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Poor body composition may affect health status, and better body composition is often associated with better academic performance. Nursing students face heavy academic and practical pressures, and the relationship between body composition and academic performance in this group is not fully understood. METHODS: This cross-sectional observational study used de-identified student data from a university of technology in southern Taiwan to analyze the correlation between body composition characteristics and academic performance using regression models. RESULTS: A total of 275 nursing college students were divided into four groups according to academic performance. The group with the lowest academic performance had a lower percentage of body fat (P < 0.05) but a higher percentage of muscle mass (P < 0.05) than the other three groups. Academic performance was positively correlated with percentage of body fat (R = 0.16, P < 0.01) and body age (R = 0.41, P < 0.01), but was negatively correlated with percentage of muscle mass (R = - 0.16, P < 0.01). Percentage of body fat, visceral fat area, and body age were significant discriminators of academic performance (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The relationship between academic performance and body composition among nursing college students is not straightforward. Contrary to our initial hypothesis, students with higher academic performance tended to have a higher percentage of body fat and a lower percentage of muscle mass. Percentage of body fat, visceral fat area, and body age were significant discriminators of academic performance, indicating that body composition should be considered an important factor in nursing education and practice.

Dementia knowledge and attitudes of nursing undergraduate students-association between lifestyle background and practical training experience.

Objective: To clarify the association between dementia knowledge and attitudes, lifestyle backgrounds, and practical training experiences of nursing students, and examine the basic nursing education for dementia. Participants and Methods: A total of 412 first-to-fourth-year students at Nursing College A participated in the study. A cross-sectional survey was conducted regarding knowledge (15 questions) and attitudes (15 questions) related to dementia. Results: Consent was obtained from 158 individuals (The response rate was 38.3%). Significant items regarding dementia attitudes and cohabitation experiences were identified. Additionally, significant items regarding attitude toward dementia and care providing experiences were identified. Conclusion: Associations among attitude toward dementia, cohabitation experiences, and care providing experiences were determined. Knowledge and attitudes regarding dementia improved with practical training experience.

Dementia knowledge and attitudes of nursing undergraduate students—association between lifestyle background and practical training experience— / Journal of Rural Medicine

Objective: To clarify the association between dementia knowledge and attitudes, lifestyle backgrounds, and practical training experiences of nursing students, and examine the basic nursing education for dementia.Participants and Methods: A total of 412 first-to-fourth-year students at Nursing College A participated in the study. A cross-sectional survey was conducted regarding knowledge (15 questions) and attitudes (15 questions) related to dementia.Results: Consent was obtained from 158 individuals (The response rate was 38.3%). Significant items regarding dementia attitudes and cohabitation experiences were identified. Additionally, significant items regarding attitude toward dementia and care providing experiences were identified.Conclusion: Associations among attitude toward dementia, cohabitation experiences, and care providing experiences were determined. Knowledge and attitudes regarding dementia improved with practical training experience.

A Model to Prevent Substance Use/Abuse by Student Nurses at Limpopo College of Nursing, South Africa.

BACKGROUND: Substance use/abuse is a global challenge that has detrimental effects on nations' health, wealth, and security. Substance users in Africa make up roughly 17% to 21% of global illicit drug users in Africa and cannabis abuse (63%) (UNODC, 2010). PURPOSE: We aimed to develop, describe, and evaluate a model that could be used as a framework of reference to prevent substance use/abuse by student nurses at Limpopo College of Nursing, South Africa. METHOD: A mixed-method study approach was used following a qualitative exploratory, descriptive, and contextual design to explore factors contributing to substance use/abuse by student nurses and quantitatively examine the impact of substance use/abuse on students' academic achievements in Limpopo Province. FINDINGS: The results of the first empirical phase reveal two themes and seven subthemes from the semi-structured interviews with lecturers, students, and support staff. The literature supported the results. In phase 2, we analyzed the concept of the "prevention" of substance use/abuse by student nurses following the process of a concept analysis by Walker and Avant (2016). The results were conceptualized within the six elements of practice theory: context, agent, recipient, dynamic, process and procedure, and outcome. CONCLUSIONS: The relational statements provided the basis for the model description. A reliable method was used to describe and evaluate the model.

Prospective association between perceived stress and anxiety among nursing college students: the moderating roles of career adaptability and professional commitment.

BACKGROUND: Anxiety may stay with nursing students throughout their internship and even persist afterwards. Although many studies have explored the effects of perceived stress on anxiety, the relationship between pre-internship perceived stress and post-internship anxiety levels has not been clarified. In addition, none had focused on the moderating roles of career adaptability and professional commitment between perceived stress and anxiety. This study aims to investigate the influence of pre-internship perceived stress on the post-internship anxiety level of nursing college students, and to analyze the moderating effects of career adaptability and professional commitment on their relationships. METHODS: A longitudinal study design was employed. Full-time nursing college students from a Chinese medical university were recruited by convenient sampling. All surveys were conducted via Wen Juan Xing ( www.wjx.cn ), a widely used web-based survey platform in China. Two waves of surveys were collected in the pre-internship and post-internship periods, with an interval of one year. Among 823 nursing students recruited, 692 students completed all two waves of the survey (response rate: 84.08%). Participants completed a series of questionnaires examining general demographic characteristics, perceived stress, anxiety, career adaptability, and professional commitment both before and after the internship. The bias-corrected bootstrap technique of the Hayes PROCESS macro (Model 2) was used to test the moderation effect. RESULTS: Pre-internship perceived stress was positively associated with post-internship anxiety (ß = 0.474, p < 0.001). Career adaptability would mitigate the effect of perceived stress on anxiety (ß = -0.009, p < 0.01, 95% CI = [-0.013, -0.004]), and this influence became stronger for nursing college students with higher levels of career adaptability. Instead, the professional commitment would enhance the effect of perceived stress on anxiety (ß = 0.004, p < 0.05, 95% CI = [0.001, 0.009]). CONCLUSIONS: Adequate career adaptability was key to alleviating anxiety among nursing interns. Nursing educators and clinical nursing managers should pay attention to cultivating the career adaptability of nursing college students in order to help them successfully achieve identity transformation and career development. Meanwhile, it is crucial to guide them to develop appropriate professional commitment.

Online teaching and learning: Experiences of students in a nursing college during the onset of COVID-19.

BACKGROUND:  The world has entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Utilisation of technology is inevitable. For the past years, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has halted normal operations, including in the physical classroom for nursing students. Students and facilitators had to move to a remote way of teaching and learning, utilising online teaching and learning. However, students and facilitators were not ready to use online teaching and learning. This not only resulted in numerous challenges, but also became an eye-opener for best practices and intervening strategies. OBJECTIVES:  To explore and describe experiences of students in a nursing college with regard to online teaching and learning during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD:  A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was adopted. A purposive, nonprobability sampling approach was used to select participants from second year, third year and fourth year. First-year student nurses were excluded because they did not commence with classrooms at that time. RESULTS:  Seven themes emerged, namely knowledge, confidence, training, equipment, clinical exposure, course extension and flexibility, and all themes had subthemes. CONCLUSION:  It is evident that students had more negative experiences during online teaching and learning than positive experiences.Contribution: The study contributed enormously to teaching and learning of student nurses in nursing colleges as its results can be used to improve nursing colleges with regard to online teaching and learning.

Information technology for teaching and learning in a multi-campus public nursing college.

Background: Technologies, such as the use of information technology for teaching and learning, e-learning and virtual learning, are commonly used terms in today's education system. These ever growing and developing modes of teaching and learning have changed the landscape of higher education, in general. As a result, nursing education has equally responded positively to the use of information technology for teaching and learning. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe and compare the readiness to use information technology for teaching and learning for both nursing students and nurse educators in the two campuses of a North West public nursing college. Setting: The study was conducted in a multi-campus North West public nursing college in South Africa. Methods: A quantitative approach of a comparative descriptive design was followed in this study. Descriptive statistics was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 27. Results: A total of 285 (254 nursing students and 31 nurse educators) respondents completed the online questionnaires. Both nurse educators and nursing students were in agreement with the information technology use readiness construct (83.9% and 77.9%, respectively). For all the variables with significant (< 0.05) p-values from the Mann-Whitney U test, the mean ranks were higher for the Ngaka Modiri Molema District (NMMD) campus. Conclusion: When comparing the two campuses, conclusion can be drawn that the campus at NMDD is more ready to use information technology for teaching and learning than the campus at Dr Kenneth Kauda District. Contribution: The results of this study contribute to the body of knowledge on technology use for teaching and learning in nursing education.

Discussion on the clinical pathway of cultivating humanistic care ability in the practical teaching of nursing college students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective:To examine the effect of applying clinical pathway model in the cultivation of humanistic care ability of nursing college students in clinical practical teaching.Methods:The study collected 52 nursing students who practiced in the department of gynecology of a tertiary first-class hospital in Xi’an from July to October, 2017 as the control group, and 52 nursing students who practiced in the same unit from July to October, 2018 were selected as the experimental group. The control group adopted the teaching method of infiltrating humanistic care education into the training process of operational skills, while the experimental group adopted the teaching method of cultivating humanistic care ability of nursing college students through clinical pathway. The differences of humanistic care ability scores between the two groups were compared. SPSS 19.0 was used for t test. Results:Before the internship, there was no statistically significant difference in humanistic care scores between the two groups ( P>0.05). After the internship, the total scores of nursing students in the experimental group were significantly higher than those in the control group ( P<0.05). Conclusion:Applying the clinical pathway model to the cultivation of humanistic care ability of nursing students in clinical practice teaching is a new cultivation model of humanistic care ability, which is helpful to improve the humanistic care ability of nursing students.

Online teaching and learning: Experiences of students in a nursing college during the onset of COVID-19

Background: The world has entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Utilisation of technology is inevitable. For the past years, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has halted normal operations, including in the physical classroom for nursing students. Students and facilitators had to move to a remote way of teaching and learning, utilising online teaching and learning. However, students and facilitators were not ready to use online teaching and learning. This not only resulted in numerous challenges, but also became an eye-opener for best practices and intervening strategies. Objectives: To explore and describe experiences of students in a nursing college with regard to online teaching and learning during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was adopted. A purposive, nonprobability sampling approach was used to select participants from second year, third year and fourth year. First-year student nurses were excluded because they did not commence with classrooms at that time. Results: Seven themes emerged, namely knowledge, confidence, training, equipment, clinical exposure, course extension and flexibility, and all themes had subthemes. Conclusion: It is evident that students had more negative experiences during online teaching and learning than positive experiences.

Discovering presence as part of nurse educators' role modelling at a public nursing college in the North West province.

BACKGROUND: Nursing students learn the science and art of nursing, including presence, from classroom content, using skills in practice, or by watching an experienced nurse interact with a patient. Nursing education must be designed so that nursing students can construct the art and science of nursing practice. Nursing students must be educated to be sound practitioners in the 'being' of nursing practice. Nurse educators modelling presence to nursing students will improve the quality of patient care during clinical training and throughout their professional role. AIM: To explore and describe nurse educators' role modelling of presence to nursing students. SETTING: This study was conducted at a public nursing college in the North West province. METHODS: A qualitative, ethnographic study was conducted. Purposive sampling was used. Four nurse educators participated in the study and data saturation was reached. Data were collected through shadowing and informal reflective conversations over a period of 8 days. RESULTS: The following relationships emerged: nurse educators model 'being professional', 'being facilitating, nurturing, caring and compassionate, encouraging, and motivating', and 'being purposeful in their nursing education approach'. CONCLUSION: Participants role modelled presence to nursing students despite daily challenges in their work. CONTRIBUTION: Creating awareness of how nurse educators can model presence despite daily challenges in their work will influence and motivate nursing students to develop presence skills. This will have a positive impact on managing patients in practice. Recommendations can guide nursing education, policy development and future research to strengthen nurse educators modelling presence.

The impact of proactive personality and clinical learning environment on nursing college students' perceived employability.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationships between proactive personality, clinical learning environment, career adaptability and self-perceived employability in nursing college students based on the career construction model. DESIGN: The study employed a cross-sectional research design. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: A purposive and convenience sampling of 405 final year nursing college students were invited to finish online survey. Structural equation modeling has been utilized to perform the measurement and structural model assessment and bootstrapping approach is employed to perform the mediation test. RESULTS: Students' proactive personality was positively related to their career adaptability (Beta=0.45, p < 0.001), and self-perceived employability (Beta=0.26, p < 0.001), clinical learning environment was positively related to career adaptability (Beta=0.14, p < 0.1) and self-perceived employability (Beta=0.43, p < 0.001), career adaptability was positively related to self-perceived employability (Beta=0.33, p < 0.001). Moreover, career adaptability significantly mediated the relationship between proactive personality and perceived employability, but it failed to mediate the relationship between clinical learning environment and perceived employability. CONCLUSIONS: For nursing college students, both clinical learning environment and proactive personality had a positive impact on their self-perceived employability, and career adaptability also mediated the relationship between proactive personality and perceived employability. Appropriate interventions may be implemented to enhance nursing college students' perceived employability.

Critical Thinking (CT) of Nursing College Students Before and After Practical Training: / 医学教育

Abstract:Introduction: The purpose of this research is to measure the critical thinking (CT) skills of nursing college students before and after practical training, and examine whether situational factors such as purpose and context can affect judgments related to CT.Methods: We distributed 795 nursing students an anonymous self-administered questionnaire using the scale to assess the CT and free description type questions. The collected data was analyzed using statistical analysis and text mining analysis.Results: The effective response rate was 22.01% (n=175) before training and 22.26% (n=177) after practical training. The average score of the CT scale was 163.70±17.68 before training and 171.21±19.03 after practical training. Five categories were extracted from the open-ended questions and identified as situations in which CT in used in practical training.Discussion: The average score of the CT scale rose with practical training experience. The existence of the practical training experience have affected the total score of the CT scale.

The Effect of Satisfaction of Body Figure and Obesity Stress on Career Preparation Behavior among Nursing College Students / 의료커뮤니케이션

PURPOSE: This descriptive research study was effect of satisfaction of body figure and obesity stress on career preparation behavior in nursing college students. Survey design was adopted for 210 nursing college students in Gyeong Sang Buk Do.METHODS: Data were gathered from May 1 to May 31, 2019 Analysed for descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and hierachical multiple regression analysis.RESULTS: There was a significant negative correlation between satisfaction of body figure and obesity stress, and was a positive correlation between career preparation behavior and obesity stress. Factors affecting career preparation behavior in the subjects were grade, subjective body shape, motivation for entering college, and stress from weight control efforts. This model explained 16% in career preparation behavior.CONCLUSION: The results suggest that an intervention program is needed to improve career preparation behavior, to teach the right knowledge about body shape and to emphasize the importance of health care in the nursing college students.

The study of influencing factors of the self-directed learning ability in nursing college students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective To investigate and analyze the characteristics and stratified influencing factors of self-directed learning of nursing college students.Methods In November 2016,a total of 304 students from three nursing colleges in Sichuan province were investigated with self-rating scale of self-directedness learning (SRSSDL).304 copies of the questionnaires were issued and recovered.Using SPSS 13.0,the independent sample t test and variance analysis were used to compare the differences between groups.Pearson correlation test and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the influencing factors.Results The average SRSSDL score of key undergraduate students of nursing college was (220.27 ± 30.16),the score of general undergraduate students was (212.37 ± 25.01),the score of Junior college students was (205.26 ± 29.84),The score difference has statistical significance (F=6.191,P=0.002).Students from key undergraduate had the highest self-directed learning ability,and students from general undergraduate and Junior college had the medium self-directed learning ability.The factors such as different levels,whether the one-child,self-study time every day,team learning experience affect students' self-directed learning ability.Conclusions We should create conditions for students to study independently,cultivate professional identity and independent spirit under the premise of clear educational objectives to improve their SDL ability.

The Role of Satellite Campuses for the Improvement of QOL-A Study and Examination of Civic Awareness and Living Conditions for Establishing Satellite Campuses- / 日本プライマリ・ケア連合学会誌

<p><b>Introduction: </b>This study aims to examine wellness programmes that can respond to the diverse demands of regional communities. Data was gathered through a questionnaire survey administered from October to November 2015 for determining demands related to satellite campus (SC).</p><p><b>Methods: </b>Responses to this survey were obtained from 104 individuals. The analysis method examined an association between participation will and ICT to SC using a chi-square test. The nonappearance module was divided into two groups of 58 years old less than 57 years old or older from the average age, and the two groups were compared using the Mann-Whithney's Utest.</p><p><b>Results: </b>The target group is each generation from 10s to 80s, and the average age is 57.6±13.5 years. The results showed that the highest demand for lectures and seminars was on health maintenance, such as prevention of cognitive impairments, health-related issues, and cancer.</p><p>Furthermore, a positive correlation was demonstrated between SC awareness and desire to participate.</p><p><b>Conclusion: </b>For the wellness program, the need for the following fixed five items was suggested: "lecture setting, publicity, traffic maintenance, a talented person, and the budget that I made use of a specialized strength".</p><p>In addition, health-related lectures may help inhabitants in adopting preventive mesures and hence, are in high demand.</p>

Questionnaire Survey Analysis on Necessity of Cadaveric Dissection for Nursing Students: In Scope of Nursing Students and Professors / 체질인류학회지

Nursing students will work to promote the health of patients as a nurse after graduation. Basic nursing science is to improve the quality and efficiency of nursing activity and to form the basis of nursing mandatory major. Anatomy is a curriculum of medical college, for that reason, it does not fit the characteristics of basic nursing science, and it is difficult to study mandatory major. This research was to provide basic data to be improved anatomy curriculum for nursing students using questionnaire about necessity of cadaveric dissection. Questionnaires were distributed to nursing students enrolled in anatomy course and professor taught basic nursing science in nursing college. Eighty-one percentage of nursing student and 95.5% in professor answered to need cadaveric dissection for nursing students. Nursing students answered that it should be helpful to understand about human body and nursing activity. Professors replied to acquire knowledge of human body and be of help to learn. They filled in internal organs and nervous system that have to observe during cadaveric dissection. The result of this research would be used as the basis for the improvement of anatomy curriculum in nursing college.

The influence of etiquette training on self efficacy and self confidence in nursing college students / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective To explore the influence of etiquette training on self efficacy and self confidence in nursing freshmen.Methods 183 nursing freshmen were given 36 class hours of etiquette training from Nursing College of Taishan Medical University.They took general self-efficacy scale (GSES),academic self-efficacy scale (ASES) and self-esteem scale(SES) tests respectively before and after the training.Results Compared with before training((2.32±0.22),(58.34±5.68),respectively),the scores of general self-efficacy and academic self-efficacy ((2.48±0.24),(66.32±6.35),respectively) were significantly increased (P＜ 0.01).The scores of self confidence increased significantly after etiquette training ((27.45 ± 2.32),(26.15 ± 2.26),(P ＜ 0.01)).Conclusion The etiquette training can improve the self-efficacy and self confidence of nursing college freshmen.

The relationship between the personality and the mindfulness level of the nursing college students / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To explore the prevalence of the personality and mindfulness level of the nursing college students and investigate their correlation.Methods 180 nursing college students were investigated by the scale of NEO and FFMQ.Results The scores of personality trait were in the moderate level.The correlation between the score of the adaptability items and the mindfulness was negatively correlated,the moral sense items,sociability items and agreeableness items and the mindfulness was positively correlated.Conclusions The personality of nursing college students is closely related with their mindfulness level.To perfect the personality of the nursing college students can improve their mindfulness level.

[Effectiveness of enneagram group counseling for self-identification and depression in nursing college students].

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine effects of enneagram group counseling program on self-identification and depression in nursing college students. Three groups, categorized by how the students solve their conflicts, were selected to identify changes from the program. METHODS: A quasi-experimental study with a non-equivalent control group and pre posttest design was used. Participants were assigned to the experimental group (n=30) or control group (n=33). The experimental group participated in enneagram group counseling program for 38 hours through eight sessions covering four different topics. Collected data were analyzed using Chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, t-test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test. RESULTS: Total self-identity score for the experimental group was significantly higher than the control group. However, there was no significant difference between the two groups for depression scores. The Assertive and Compliant groups demonstrated significant change in self-identification while the Withdrawn groups did not reveal any change. CONCLUSION: Results indicate that the enneagram group counseling program is very effective in establishing positive self-identification for nursing college students who face developmental crisis and stressful situations. It is also expected that this program would be useful to enhance the students' confidence through a deeper understanding and acceptance of themselves.

The correlation between the mindfulness level and the behavior characteristics of the nursing college students / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To investigate the relationship between the level of mindfulness and the A-type behavior characteristics of the nursing college students.Methods 172 nursing college students were investigated by the scale of TABP and FFMQ.The results were analyzed.Results In the 172 nursing college students,there were 112 nursing college students belonging to type B behavior pattern,accounted for 65.1％,and 60 nursing college students belonging to type A behavior pattern,accounted for 34.9％.The correlation between the score of TABP and the observation items and describing items were positive statistically significant,and was negatively correlated with awareness items and non-judge items statistically.Conclusions The students with different behavior characteristics were different in their mindfulness level.In order to improve nursing college students' mindfulness level and their mental health,the educators should take intervention based on their behavior characteristics timely.